Severe hemophilia patients are more likely to be complicated by intra-articular hemorrhage,
subcutaneous hemorrhage, and intramascular hemorrhage. Spontaneous intra-abdominal
hemorrhage is a rare fatal disease, which is an arterial bleeding of uncertain causes
from vessel feeding arteries. In case the spontaneous intra-abdominal hemorrhage is
complicated to severe hemophilia patients, the mortality rate increases considerably.
We experienced a patient with severe hemophilia A, who made a full recovery from spontaneous
intra-abdominal hemorrhagic shock by replacement therapy of coagulation factor VII,
a noninvasive procedure.
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: July 01, 2014
Accepted:
June 19,
2014
Received:
June 6,
2014
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☆Conflict of interest: None declared.
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